Thousand Guineas 2021

Ladbrokes Tip: The Thousand Guineas Prelude is the key Thousand Guineas lead-up

The Thousand Guineas is a mile feature held at Caulfield Racecourse in early to mid-October every Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival for three-year-old fillies and is worth a lucrative $1 million in prize money.

It was previously one of four Group 1 features on Caulfield Guineas Day before being moved to the following Wednesday in 2021 as its own feature race day alongside three Group 3 events including the Blue Sapphire Stakes , Ladies’ Day Vase and Coongy Cup for Caulfield Cup hopefuls.

The 1600m set weights features was first run in 1946 and from 1988 – 2013 also took place on a Wednesday during the Spring Carnival. It has held elite level status since 1979 and notable Thousand Guineas winners include Wenona Girl (1960), Alinghi (2004), Miss Finland (2006) and Atlantic Jewel (2011).

The better fillies out of the Thousand Guineas may continue on to take on the older mares in Flemington’s Group 1 Empire Rose Stakes (1600m), a race the 2020 Thousand Guineas winner Odeum ran second in.

This season the 2021 Thousand Guineas ran on Wednesday October 13, 2021 and was won in an upset by the Hawkes Racing-trained Yearning at 25/1. 

2021 Thousand Guineas Results

The official Thousand Guineas 2021 Results & Finishing Order will be provided below once the race is run and won on Wednesday October 13, 2021.

• 1st: #9 Yearning
• 2nd: #3 Elusive Express
• 3rd: #10 Barb Raider

The Hawkes Racing-trained Yearning ($26) lived up to her pedigree running out the mile brilliantly with a last-to-first upset in the Thousand Guineas 2021 results and subsequently firming in all-in VRC Oaks betting.

Thousand Guineas Race Info

• Date: Wednesday October 13, 2021
• Track: Caulfield Racecourse
• Distance: 1600m
• Conditions: 3YO Fillies – Set Weights
• Status: Group 1
• Prize Money: $1 million
• First Run: 1946

Thousand Guineas Betting

Thousand Guineas betting is hugely popular each Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival and is dominated by in-form fillies coming via the traditional lead-up runs into the Group 1.

The Thousand Guineas Prelude top three placegetters always feature highly up the Thousand Guineas betting markets, as do those fillies drawn near the inside with just one Thousand Guineas winner having jumped from wider than barrier nine since 2004.

Favourites high up the Thousand Guineas odds have an excellent recent record in the mile feature too with five saluting for the punters from 2008 – 2016.

The favourites were back on top in the 2019 Thousand Guineas results with Flit ($2.35) saluting as the top elect, the last favourite to win.

There was a notable upset in 2021 however with Yearning winning at a $26 Thousand Guineas starting price.

2021 Thousand Guineas Odds

The season’s top Thousand Guineas 2021 odds and betting market links will be available below as soon as open.

The Thousand Guineas field attracts a line-up of the season’s best middle-distance fillies with either a winning record up to 1400m showing the potential to run out a strong mile, or those already proven over the 1600m distance.

The Thousand Guineas final acceptances are released on the Monday before the race runs on a Wednesday after Caulfield Guineas Day with the early nominations closing at the start of August.

2021 Thousand Guineas Field

The official Thousand Guineas 2021 field and barriers will be published in full below once final acceptances are taken by Racing Victoria on the Monday of race week.

The 2021 Thousand Guineas final field has drawn a quality line-up of fillies including Chris Waller’s Flight Stakes runner-up from Sydney Hinged.

2021 Thousand Guineas Nominations

The early Thousand Guineas 2021 Nominations are taken on August 3, 2021 and are set to attract over 200 fillies. The field is then determined after First & Second Acceptances in September.

The 2021 Thousand Guineas nominations attracted 249 fillies (11 more than 2020) including Anthony & Sam Freedman’s nicely-bred daughter of Frankel Argentia, the autumn’s Group 1 Golden Slipper and Inglis Sires’ fourth-placed filly Four Moves Ahead, the Chris Waller-trained She’s All Class and the Ciaron Maher & David Eustace-trained Crystal Bound. 

2021 Thousand Guineas First Acceptances

The 2021 Thousand Guineas First Acceptances close on September 7, 2021 and will be published in full below as soon as announced.

The Thousand Guineas 2021 first acceptances attracted 93 three-year-old fillies led in all-betting by the undefeated Anthony & Sam Freedman-trained Atlantic Jewel Stakes winner Zouzarella.

2021 Thousand Guineas Second Acceptances

The 2021 Thousand Guineas Second Acceptances further narrow down the potential line-up and are announced on September 21, 2021.

Thousand Guineas Tips

Top Thousand Guineas tips include looking for any fillies that may have recently been running against the colts and geldings that are coming back against their own kind, backing the proven milers in the race that may have contested Sydney’s Group 1 Flight Stakes (1600m) and those drawn in barriers 1 – 9.

2021 Thousand Guineas Tips

Our Ladbrokes’ insider Thousand Guineas 2021 betting tips and Caulfield racing selections will be detailed below the week of the race so bookmark this page for the fillies to back and sack in the Group 1 this spring.

• To Win: #2 Hinged ($4.40 at time of publish) 

Tipping the Sydney form to stack-up in Melbourne and have the Waller-trained Flight Stakes runner-up Hinged on top. She and hoop Damian Lane have options from barrier nine and she is proven at the distance, the Queensland expat having won over 1600m in Brisbane. The Flight Stakes winner Never Been Kissed was so brave when runner-up in the Spring Champion Stakes last weekend and that bodes well for Hinged sticking against her own kind at the distance here.

Thousand Guineas Form Guide

The Thousand Guineas form guide features all the info punters need to place a well-informed wager on the mile showdown including the saddlecloth number, barrier, trainer and jockey of all the fillies in the field.

Looking for a runner drawn between barriers 4 – 6 is a good tip as these gates have produced the most winners in recent years, while just two winners have jumped from double digits in the past decade with Serious Speed (10 in 2007) and Amphitrite (15 in 2018).

Since 2008 six last start winners have gone on to win the Thousand Guineas including Guelph (2013) who took out the Flight Stakes – Thousand Guineas double, subsequently completed by Global Glamour (2016). Before her the last Thousand Guineas champ to come via the other Group 1 was Yosei (2010) who ran sixth in the Flight Stakes before winning the Thousand Guineas as a 10/1 chance.

Thousand Guineas Form Facts

• Serious Speed (2007) was the last winner to jump from a double-digit Thousand Guineas barrier before the success of Amphitrite (2018) from the outside alley (15)
• From 2006 – 2021 seven favourites in Thousand Guineas betting have saluted for the punters
• In that time five Thousand Guineas winners started at double-figures with Yosei ($11 in 2010), Commanding Jewel ($10 in 2012), Aloisia ($14 in 2017), Amphitrite ($13 in 2018) and Yearning ($26 in 2021)

2021 Thousand Guineas Form Guide

A link to our comprehensive Thousand Guineas 2021 Form Guide will be provided for punters below the week of the race.

Thousand Guineas Results

The Thousand Guineas results and finishing order are announced on the Wednesday after Caulfield Guineas Day when the event headlines the midweek race card at Caulfield Racecourse. As well as the Thousand Guineas winner, successful trifecta and first four you can also see the starting price and margin of all the runners as well as any scratched horses.

Notable recent Thousand Guineas winners include upset 2017 Thousand Guineas winner Aloisia (2017), Global Glamour (2016), Guelph (2013), Atlantic Jewel (2011) and Miss Finland (2006).

Thousand Guineas Winners